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JOSEPH RICE (deceased) was born in Prussia, Germany, in 1790, and died in Brown County, Ohio, September 21, 1877. He grew up in Europe, received a good German education, and served an apprenticeship as a baker, but in 1811 left his relations and friends and sailed for the Western Continent, where he followed his trade in some of the largest towns, and about 1838 reached Cincinnati, Ohio, where he at once opened a bakery of his own, and six years later, on May 2, was married to Lena Gates, a native of Baden, Germany, born January 18, 1824. They remained in Cincinnati and continued their business until 1853, when they purchased a farm of thirty-nine acres near Higginsport, Ohio, and moved on it. Here they began the cultivation of grapes, and made it a success. It received his attention mostly during his residence in Brown County. He was a man of strong constitution, that enabled him to withstand many hardships. The children by this union were nine in number, of whom six are now living, viz.: Mary, Albert, Charles, Conrad, Joseph H. and Frank A. Mrs. Rice was brought to America when quite small, and settled in Pennsylvania, but about 1834, they moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where her parents died, and where her marriage was celebrated.